On December 22, 2009, The Bleyzer Foundation held another round table for experts and mass media representatives entitled 2010 Risks. What to Prepare for?


The discussion touched upon the following topics:

- Consensus expectations for 2010
- Will the real economy sector begin to recover? What steps must be taken to turn plans into reality?
- Inflation risks. Can we expect well-balanced monetary and budget policies?
- Debt restructuring possibilities in 2010. How important is cooperation with the IMF?
- A thought-out budget policy. It is feasible to raise social standards?
      - Risks of loosing institutes
- Hryvnia stability. Risks of exchange rate imbalances
- Balance of payments condition. Has this risk disappeared or the situation can recur?
- Borrowing. Risks of growing debts and short-term government borrowings. New initiatives of the Ministry of Finance.


The round table participants included:

Oleg Ustenko, Executive Director of The Bleyzer Foundation
Victor Suslov, Head of the State Commission for Regulation of Financial Services Markets
Vasiliy Yurchyshyn, Director of Economic Programs, Razumkov Center
Valeriy Geyets, Director of the Institute of Economics and Forecasting under the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
Vladimir Fesenko, Director of the Planeta center of political analysis
Valeriy Gladkiy, General Director of the Bureau of Economic and Social Technologies
Andrey Blinov, Chief Editor of the Expert Ukraine business magazine.

Presentation of O. Ustenko (rus.)

Presentation of A. Blinov (rus.)